Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1548. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Rouble (27.92 g, 12h). Red mint. Dated 1724 (Arabic date). ΠETPЪ • A • ИMПEPATOPЬ • ICAMOДEPЖEЦЬ • BCEPOCCIИCKИI, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / MOHETA HOBAA ЦEHA P(OУ)БЛЬ, crowned cruciform П monogram; I in quarters; 17 24 across field. On edge: (flower) MOCKOBCKOΓO (flower) ДBAPA (flower) POCCИCKOI (two flowers) P(OУ)БЛЬ. Bitkin 941; Severin 637; Uzdenikov 617 var. (ДBOPA). UNC, lightly patinated and having fully original surfaces. An incredible type coin in Uncirculated condition.

Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 21 (24 January 1989), lot 2079.